07/24/2019
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"I really don't like systems that foster preventable tragedies that take 33 lives."
"Do you feel there is any conflict in your mission here where you are both to facilitate and promote seaborne commerce and at the same time you are supposed to protect the life and safety of the marine..."
"So we can assume that El Faro was, as the sister ship, in similar substandard condition?"
"I think we have spread them too thin. And they are relying far too much on classification societies without any substantial oversight of those classification societies."